June 13, 2017
A Spiritual Rather Than a Religious Program When it comes to recovery, the program maintains a focus that is spiritually-based as opposed to religiously-based. Finding a higher power is of the utmost importance to the successful practice of a recovery program. We require simply the belief ...
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May 30, 2017
Loss and the subsequent feelings of sadness are as much a part of life as breathing. It is an unavoidable and unfortunate truth that remains prevalent even when we find ourselves in a program of recovery. There are many different ways one may experience loss, and all the feelings that come...
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April 13, 2017
While airline drug testing can test for the usual suspects—alcohol, cocaine, heroin, and marijuana—the same cannot be said for synthetic opioids like fentanyl and oxycodone. A bit more disconcerting is the fact that airline drug testing is also run on an optional basis when it comes to...
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March 24, 2017
Mindfulness-based relapse prevention (MBRP) is an addiction treatment approach originated in 2010 by the late Alan Marlatt and his research team at the Addictive Behaviors Research Center at the University of Washington. The secular program caters to each individual’s needs, but what hap...
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February 16, 2017
Downing alcoholic drinks to drown out painful memories may end up doing just the opposite, according to new research. In experiments involving mice, alcohol was found to strengthen emotional memories linked to fear, according to a John Hopkins University study recently published online in ...
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October 3, 2016
If you’ve been following some of our series or featured articles on Pathway to Hope and our other facility websites, then you’ve probably learned about celebrities who are in recovery, how to fight the custody battle after treatment, or how young adults are affected by peer pressure in...
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September 22, 2016
Dual-diagnoses often come with a long line of misconceptions. More often than not, drug addicts tend to have an underlying mental illness that, if not diagnosed and treated, further drug abuse, relapse, and/or mental torment may ensue no matter how much therapy and 12-step work one does in...
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September 16, 2016
Judgment, harassment, discrimination, and violence are all battles they don’t pick, but transgender men and women still they find themselves right there on the front lines fighting them every day. For Black trans women and trans women of color, living is about staying in survival mode. D...
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September 9, 2016
America likes to drink. The question is: Does America like to drink too much? The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) ranked in the numbers and, well, the answer might be an alarming yes. More than 38 million adults in the United States reported binge drinking “an average of...
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September 1, 2016
National Recovery Month has arrived! For the entire month of September, Pathway to Hope has a slew of series and special articles to highlight the struggle and beauty of recovery. The goal of Pathway to Hope has always been to guide loved ones to seek treatment and start a new way of life ...
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